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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2026-01-19 13:05:02 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2026-01-20 15:31:06 -0700
commit32e9a42440a230b14c438099bc5fccb5012a638a (patch)
tree413c705b343796322e416f9d861a7fb56b8c4850 /tools/docs/kernel-doc
parenteba6ffd126cd52358181ed5a179644a161f9c65f (diff)
docs: kdoc: move the return values to the helper message
It makes sense to describe what kernel-doc is expected to return on its help message. Move such messages to argparse epilog. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <3bcfa48016770929fcd073376515e3ff0b777ea8.1768823489.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/docs/kernel-doc')
-rwxr-xr-xtools/docs/kernel-doc27
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/tools/docs/kernel-doc b/tools/docs/kernel-doc
index a19a92566780..902397804e80 100755
--- a/tools/docs/kernel-doc
+++ b/tools/docs/kernel-doc
@@ -166,6 +166,20 @@ This option is kept just for backward-compatibility, but it does nothing,
neither here nor at the original Perl script.
"""
+EPILOG = """
+The return value is:
+
+- 0: success or Python version is not compatible with
+kernel-doc. If -Werror is not used, it will also
+return 0 if there are issues at kernel-doc markups;
+
+- 1: an abnormal condition happened;
+
+- 2: argparse issued an error;
+
+- 3: When -Werror is used, it means that one or more unfiltered parse
+ warnings happened.
+"""
class MsgFormatter(logging.Formatter):
"""Helper class to format warnings in a similar way to kernel-doc.pl."""
@@ -178,21 +192,10 @@ def main():
"""
Main program.
- By default, the return value is:
-
- - 0: success or Python version is not compatible with
- kernel-doc. If -Werror is not used, it will also
- return 0 if there are issues at kernel-doc markups;
-
- - 1: an abnormal condition happened;
-
- - 2: argparse issued an error;
-
- - 3: -Werror is used, and one or more unfiltered parse warnings happened.
"""
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter,
- description=DESC)
+ description=DESC, epilog=EPILOG)
#
# Normal arguments